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I am a mental health professional that works in an inpatient substance abuse facility. The grandiose assumptions about the origin and prognosis of alcohol addiction in this book is dangerous. This writer endorses choice theory, choosing to throw himself back into the early 1900s, ignoring all scientific, empirical research. One moment endorsing the idea that alcohol is a universal problem with biological basis and willpower has nothing to do recovery and the next endorsing choice theory as though accepting a disease diagnosis absolves the victim from all wrong doing. Shocked at the toxicity of this literature. Sure the writer intended these words to move readers to a place of aggressive empowerment. However, the guilt that results from a relapse in this perspective could result in very unforgivable consequences. I am sure author is saved from all negative feedback, as he and I both know that a relapse victim of addiction wont be publically posting here that the method didn't work for them and they are back in the barrel due to the cultural/social stigma against addiction. Bravo, illusionist. Seriously ill at the presentation in this book.